The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-11-30
Weekly News Summary.
Vermont.

i've times in thirty-two years
Two Swanton liquor-sellers have been
fined, with costs, in the aggregate $40.
THE Richford journal says that there are
four cases of diphtheria in one Berkshire
family.
GOVERNOR ORMsBEE and Judge Veazey
have been admitted to practice before the
United States supreme court
BURLINGTON is making another struggle
for military company The Sons of Vet
Grams are engineering the matter
REV. j. II. RICHARDSON, pastor of the
CONGREGATIONAL church at CRANKY, has ac-
cepted call to Tamworth, n. III.
REV. JOHN CowAN of Chester has been
called to the Congregational church at South
Deerheld, Mass, at salary OF Sl,OOO.
THE next annual encampment of the de-
partment of Vermont, G. A. r., will be held
at st. Johnsbury during the last of January.
A VEIN of silver ore was struck recently
by workmen on the farm of j. G. Ufford at
Greensboro, specimens from which on assay
showed six-tenths pure silver.
THE St. Adams Messenger says there has
been no time of late years that the Central
Vermont could not have purchased the
Rutland railroad if it had desired to.
LESTER b. GREENE, who died at St. AL
bans last week, was for a number of years
grand secretary of the Brotherhood of Lo-
connective Engineers of the United States.
THE body of Jack Zero of West Swanton,
missing since the 18th instant, was found
about one mile west of Maquam dock, near
where Krause's body was washed ashore.
He probably died from exposure.
The quarrymen at Princes quarry, West
Dorset, struck because an engineer was en-
ployed who was not a Knight of Labor
They were promptly discharged and new
men hired in their stead. This result is diff
ferent from what they looked for.
EDWARD f. PUTNAM, a mill-owner and
manufacturer of butter-tubs at Jacksonville,
was instantly killed last week by a falling
limb from a tree on which he was chopping
He was prominent citizen and highly es-
teemed. He leaves wife and two children.
PARTIES who have been mining iron and
manganese in South Wallingford for several
months past have struck, at depth of six
hundred feet, the most extensive deposit
ever found in that section. The iron is in
so pure a state that it is shipped as it comes
out to Bessemer, Penn, where, being mixed
with other metal, it is said to form the best
quality of steel.
THE citizens of Orwell are generally in
dignant at the action of the commissioners
in establishing a cattle quarantine because
of pleuro-pneumonia which never existed.
Several cattle were killed, and the slaughter
would have been continued but for the
timely arrival of veterinary surgeon from
Washington, who said the Orwell cattle
were free from the disease.
DIR. MIDDLETON GOLDSMITH, who died at
Rutland Saturday, November Goth, after a
painful illness, was a physician and sur
geon of the old school and had gained repu-
tation as an author on medical topics. He
was seventy years old, had been professor
in several medical colleges and during the
war was medical director of the depart
ment of the Southwest The recent death
of his wife fastened his own departure.
G.S. FAssErr of North Enosburgh has
twenty Jersey grades that have made $3.50
pounds of butter in the past year-or an av-
erage of 269 pounds each. This has Melted
him twenty-six and one-half cents, or S70.9j
per COW, and furnished a grand total of
81, 1850 for the butter alone. In addition
to this he has sold swine and calves, largely
raised on the sour milk, to the amount of
S167 He has fed the herd so worth of
grain and, without estimating the value of
the manure, has had a net income of
S1,592.70.
JOSEPH ST. LAWRENCE, a newsboy on the
local passenger train arriving at st. Adams
at half-past twelve p. NJ, had rather mar
row escape from death at the depot Satur-
day and was for a time very much fright
ened lad. In some way or other he was
thrown from the car platform, on which he
was standing, and fell so that his head came
in contact with the wheel. Fortunately,
however, instead of running over him the
wheel pushed his head away from the track
and the boy escaped with only bruise.-
Messenger.
A FINE bell has been shipped from the
Clinton II. Meneely bell foundry in Troy
to Wilmington. The bell is the gift of
John II. Flagg, prominent lawyer of New
senate, to the Congregational church at
Wilmington. The bell is inscribed: " In
Memoriam Lyman Mason Flagg. Born
December 81, 1S49. Died May ., 1856" The
deceased was born at Wilmington and was
a son of General Stephen p. Flagg. He
went abroad, here his superb voice was
greatly admired. He died in Italy.
GEORGE w. GATES, who died in White
River junction recently, was for nearly
twenty years division superintendent of the
Western Union Telegraph Company, his
territory embracing Vermont, New Hamp
shire and part of Massachusetts. At the
time of his death he was vice-presdent of
the National Bank of White River Junction
director of the Mssisquoi Valley railroad
and also of the Vermont & Boston Tele
graph Company. About three years age
Mr.. Gates voluntarily retired from the serv
ice of the Western Union Telegraph Com,
pany. He was prominent democrat, and
in 1880 he was the nominee of that party foi
acknowledgements. Mr.. Gates was in his
siXty-second year
JOHN FINN, while at his meat-market or
Lake street on Thursday morning, had wha
he considered an uncomfortably close call
Standing in the market and looking int,
an alley just opposite, he saw somebody
with gun evidently trying to shoot bird
Mr.. Finn remarked to somebody that tina
man is pointing his gun this way" and a
the same time lowered his head, as if to aver
danger He had no sooner done this than
bullet came whizzing by, just over his head
and shattered a light of glass behind him
Finn thinks that meat-market rs hardl,
the place to look for game, as what birds
find their way there are usually dead befor,
he gets them and not fit objects of tn
sportsman's endeavor.-St. 1lbdnS Mes
Senger.
On December 1st the Central Vernon
road will issue mileage tickets in book form
with coupon for each mile, to suppressed
the card form now in use. These books vii
be sold in two sizes-one containing cou
pons for five hundred miles and the othe
for one thousand They will be sold at tn
same rate as the old mileage tickets-Sl2. .
for the five-hundred-m and $40 for tn
one-thousand- mile and will be good be
tween Ogdensburg, Sherbrooke, st. Johns
Windsor and Bellows Falls via Rutlan,
division) and between Brattleboro an
Miller's Falls, and on the MissisquC
Valley and Addison railroads. The sam
liberal conditions will attach to them as t
the other mileage tickets, namely: they wi
be good for the use of the family of tn
purchaser when each members name
placed on the ticket. One ticket will ais
be good for firm and its travelling agent t
the extent OF four persons, each name
appear on the ticket.-MeSsenger.
THE Springfield Repubiican's Brattlebor